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Atticus: ... till an artery-popping rant about the EU do us part

Here is disappointing news for anybody who woke up this morning next to an
obsessively Eurosceptic MP who longs to bring back hanging for Lib Dems: it
looks as if you’re stuck with them. Staunch conservatives are more
likely than average to go through life with a single sexual partner,
according to French research. Published in Marianne magazine, it says
leftwingers are twice as likely to indulge in partner-swapping and 25% more
likely to be unfaithful (a legacy, the magazine suggests, of the idea that
property is theft). Supporters of the extreme right enjoy “non-standard
sexual extremities” — which I think means they’re very keen on uniforms.

What does all this mean? Simply that young men and women with political
ambition should heed the advice of St Augustine: “Make me Conservative, oh
Lord . . . but not yet.”